“A mulher no século XX”: Plínio Salgado e a idealização feminina na ação integralista brasileira

Abstract

This historiographical work searches to understand the vision of the Integralist leader Plínio Salgado on the issue of women within the context of AIB based on the book “A Mulher no Século XX” (published in 1949) taking into account the female role in society in the 1930s, marked by the idea of women as mothers and wives, under the methodology of Discourse Analysis. Furthermore, we will seek to compare the idealization made in the 1949 book with the female presence in the founding document of the movement (Manifesto de Outubro de 1932) and the role of women in the Brazilian Integralist Action based on the journalistic analysis of the newspaper A Offensiva. We hope, from this research, to confirm the influence of the Catholic and conservative ideals, both in the precepts that Plínio Salgado uses as a basis when founding the Brazilian Integralist Movement, and in the actions of integralist women, also known as green blouses or “plinianas”.